audience
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audience
- /ˈɔːdi.əns/ UK
- /ˈoːdɪjəns/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈɔ.di.əns/
- [ˈɔ.ɾi.əns]
- /ˈɑ.di.əns/ cot caught merger
- [ˈɑ.ɾi.əns] cot caught merger
- /ˈɒ.di.əns/ Canada
- [ˈɒ.ɾi.əns] Canada
- /ˈoːdi.əns/ Australia, New Zealand
- [ˈoːɾi.əns] Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈɔ.de.əns/ Scotland
Where it comes from
From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia.
noun audiences
- A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
- Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. WHen he had ended all his ſayingꝭ in the audience of the people / he entred ĩto Capernaum.
- A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
- A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
- The readership of a book or other written publication. "Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience.
- A following. The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.
- An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
Similar: hearership, listenership
